צוּר tsur

Hebrew word for “to confine” · Strong’s H6696 · used 38 times in 38 verses

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Meaning

1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to confine, secure; 1a2) to shut in, beseige; 1a3) to shut up, enclose

Senses in the lexicon

• to confine (32)
• to provoke (4)
• to form (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for tsur in context, with how often each is used:

• laid siege 10
• will lay siege 5
• laying siege 4
• lay siege 2
• who are laying siege 2
• fashioned 2
• will secure 1
• shutting up 1
• secured 1
• tied up 1
• besieged 1
• enclose 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 2 (2), Deuteronomy 20 (2), 2 Kings 6 (2), Jeremiah 21 (2), Exodus 23 (1), Exodus 32 (1), Deuteronomy 14 (1), Judges 9 (1), 1 Samuel 23 (1), 2 Samuel 11 (1)

Forms

• ויצר 9
• ויצרו 6
• צרים 5
• וצרת 4
• הצרים 4
• וצרתי 2
• תצור 1
• לצור 1
• יצר 1
• צרתני 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tsur more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 10
• חַיִל chayil “strength” 6
• שֹׁמְרוֹן shomeron “Samaria” 5
• עִיר ir “city” 8
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 7
• בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 5
• מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 5
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 6
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 5
• שָׁחַת shachat “to ruin” 4
• לָחַם lacham “to fight” 4
• נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר nevukhadnetstsar “Nebuchadnezzar” 3

Key verses

The verses using tsur that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 32:4 — And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which…
• Deuteronomy 2:9 — And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I…
• 2 Samuel 11:1 — And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel;…
• 1 Kings 20:1 — And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and…
• 2 Kings 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a…
• 2 Kings 18:9 — And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came…
• 1 Chronicles 20:1 — And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of…
• 2 Chronicles 6:28 — If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities…
• Isaiah 21:2 — A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing…
• Jeremiah 21:4 — Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and…
• Jeremiah 32:2 — For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
• Jeremiah 39:1 — In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.